October 31, 1984

Education Week, Vol. 04, Issue 09
Education Opinion It's Time to Change State Attendance Laws
Across the United States, there has been much discussion about restructuring schools to make them more effective. It is time to include in that discussion a reexamination of state laws requiring students to attend school.
George McShea & Mary Babcock, August 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Some Call it Tuition
Seven years ago, the school where I teach in Northern California held a couple of fund-raisers to help build a small amphitheater. Back then, raising money was an occasional event designed to pay for extras that were beyond the scope of the regular school budget.
John Moir, August 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Hard-Nosed Hardigan
The summer that I was 11 years old, my family moved from the city to a small town, my father's hometown. Hesitant to leave my neighborhood friends, movie theater, and especially the city pool, I was assured of all the wonderful opportunities that only small towns afford. “The whole town is just like one big family,” my father imparted convincingly. “The kids are friendlier and the teachers more caring. Small towns are like that.”
Marlis Day, August 1, 1993
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Education Opinion Not So Special
An important debate currently is under way that may ultimately define the fate of special education in this country. Should special education be “reformed”?
David O. Krantz, August 1, 1993
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Education Chiefs To Be Elected in Five States
Incumbent chief state school officers in four states face re-election bids on Nov. 6 and voters in a fifth state will chose a new school chief following the incumbent's decision to retire.

Indiana. Harold H. Negley, a Republican who has held the state's top school post since 1973, is being challenged by Ray Schele, a political science professor at Ball State University.

October 31, 1984
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Education Few Schools in Full Compliance With Asbestos Rules, Survey Finds
Most of the schools that contain friable asbestos are trying to cover or remove it, but few schools have complied fully with federal regulations, according to a national survey released last week by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Lynn Olson, October 31, 1984
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Education Military Expanding Its Teacher Projects
Since graduating from the U.S. Naval Acadamy in 1963, Capt.William L. Coulter has spent a majority of his 21 years in the Navy aboard nuclear-powered submarines, patrolling the world's oceans. Now living in Pensacola, Fla., he spent two nights a week last year in a classroom at nearby Escambia High School, learning the do's and don'ts of teaching mathematics and science to 15-, 16-, and 17-year-olds.
Thomas Toch, October 31, 1984
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Education Suicide: Unsettling Worry for Schools
Every day, about 18 young people somewhere in the United States commit suicide, and experts estimate that at least 50 to 100 more attempt it.
Alina Tugend, October 31, 1984
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Education Teachers' Unions in Minnesota Pledge Unified Front, Amid 'Courtship' Talk
For the first time in their histories, the presidents of the rival Minnesota Education Association and Minnesota Federation of Teachers spoke at each other's state conventions this month.
Austin Wehrwein, October 31, 1984
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Education School Bills Signed
President Reagan has signed two major education measures into law and has until Oct. 31 to sign a third.

The President on Oct. 19 signed P.L. 98-524, a five-year reauthorization for vocational-education programs that calls for $950 million in the current fiscal year, and P.L. 98-511, an omnibus bill that reauthorizes 10 programs for over $1 billion.

October 31, 1984
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Education District News Roundup
Officials in the District of Columbia Public Schools have tightened security and instituted child-abuse-awareness courses for educators and parents following seven acts of violence against schoolchildren in or around school buildings in the last month.

The incidents include the stabbing death of a 13-year-old girl, the rape of a 10-year-old girl, two instances of indecent acts against 5-year-old children, one kidnapping and one attempted kidnapping, and one report of an assault threat against a 16-year-old girl, according to Janis Cromer, director of communications for the 89,000-student district.

October 31, 1984
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Education States News Roundup
A coalition of Texas public-interest groups, education organizations, and unions this month called on the Reagan Administration to order the Environmental Protection Agency to play a more active role in the removal of asbestos from school buildings.

In a press release issued Oct. 16, members of the Texas State Teachers Association, the Service Employees International Union, the Texas Federation of Teachers, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, and Public Citizen (a Ralph Nader organization) asked President Reagan to "replace epa officials handling the asbestos problem with people who care about our nation's children."

October 31, 1984
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Education News Update
The governing council of the National Collegiate Athletic Association has voted to seek a two-year delay in the introduction of a controversial academic standard for freshmen athletes.

The standard, scheduled to go into effect in August 1986, would require freshmen wishing to play intercollegiate sports at the ncaa's most competitive Division I schools to earn a combined score of at least 700 out of a possible 1,600 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or a composite score of 15 out of a possible 36 on the act Assessment.

October 31, 1984
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Education People News
Commissioner of Education Raymon L. Bynum of Texas has announced that he will retire from his $65,400-a-year job effective Oct. 31.

Mr. Bynum, who has been a vocal critic of some of the state's new education reforms, said his retirement has been planned for some time and is unrelated to recent criticism by Gov. Mark White and Lt. Gov. William Hobby.

October 31, 1984
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Education Education's Role Uncertain in Congress Races
In four of this year's most closely watched U.S. Senate campaigns, Democrats noted for their records in education are challenging Republican incumbents in Illinois, Mississippi, and North Carolina, and contending for an open seat in Texas.
James Hertling, October 31, 1984
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Education California Approves Program To Monitor School Audits
The California legislature, responding to reports of imprudent spending practices in some school districts, has approved a new program to monitor the audit reports that districts receive annually from outside accounting firms.
Michael Fallon, October 31, 1984
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Education Academe's Standards Diminished, E.D. Report Finds
Attempting to turn national attention to postsecondary schooling, a study group appointed by the Education Department has proposed broad curricular and institutional reforms to stem a perceived decline in the quality of higher education.
James Hertling, October 31, 1984
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Education New York Pupil Poll Finds Alcohol, Drug Use Heavy
About 60 percent of New York State's secondary-school students had at least one experience with illicit drugs in the last school year, and more than half were "drunk or very high" from alcohol at least once during the same period.
Linda Chion-Kenney, October 31, 1984
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Education Federal File: Thunder From the Right; Readers for Reagan; Access Guidelines

Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell is being buffeted by criticism from the right. The latest attack comes in a new book, Washington: City of Scandals--Investigating Congress and Other Big Spenders, by a nationally syndicated conservative columnist, Donald Lambro.
October 31, 1984
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Education Court Asked To Reverse Ruling On State Aid in Private Schools
The Justice Department last week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court's ruling that a New York City program using federal compensatory-education aid to finance classes taught in private schools by public-school teachers is unconstitutional.
James Hertling, October 31, 1984
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Education Despite Fitness Boom, the Young Remain Unfit, New Studies Agree
The physical-fitness boom apparently has had little impact on the young: They are significantly less fit than they ought to be, two national studies indicate.
Pamela Winston, October 31, 1984
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Education Florida Weighs New Teacher Rules
A proposal now before the Florida Board of Education "will result in Florida possessing the most rigorous teacher-certification renewal requirements in the United States," according to the state's Education Standards Commission, which proposed the changes.

Under Florida's "sunset review" law, the legislature must review all of the state's statutes for teacher certification and certificate renewal during the 1985 legislative session and either modify, eliminate, or extend them.

October 31, 1984
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Education Change of Focus, Location Proposed for Georgia's Vocational Effort
Georgia's 41-member Education Review Commission, established by Gov. Joe Frank Harris last year to revamp the state's public schools, has proposed major changes in vocational education that would shift the emphasis away from training for specific jobs and toward a greater concentration on academic subjects and general work-related skills.
Lynn Olson, October 31, 1984
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Education Media Column
As computer-literacy courses proliferate in schools across the country, at least one school is also developing its students' proficiency in another, related subject: telecommunications literacy.

At the North Fulton Center for International Studies, a magnet school in Atlanta, high-school students can take a one-semester course that "explores all facets of electronic communications."

October 31, 1984
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Education Education-Reform Issues Hottest In Many Gubernatorial Contests
Education has emerged as a key campaign issue in several of the 13 states holding gubernatorial elections next week, with candidates in many cases developing highly detailed platforms.
Tom Mirga, October 31, 1984
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Education Indiana Governor Offers Reform Plan
Gov. Robert D. Orr of Indiana has sent an ambitious package of school reforms to the General Assembly for consideration in its 1985 session.
Thomas Toch, October 31, 1984
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Education Researchers Begin To Examine Youth Suicide as National Problem
Researchers--proceeding cautiously because of their uncertainty over whether public attention is causally linked to multiple suicides among adolescents--have only recently begun to study the phenomenon as a serious national health problem.
Alina Tugend, October 31, 1984
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Education Teacher-Training and Credentialing Programs Attacked in Hearing
In the last of five hearings held around the country, the National Commission on Excellence in Teacher Education last week heard, for the first time, harsh criticism of teacher-training programs and credentialing procedures at its session here.
Cindy Currence, October 31, 1984
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Education Year's Longest Teacher Strike Settled
Some 700 teachers and school personnel for St. John the Baptist Parish in Reserve, La., reached an agreement with the school board last week, ending the longest school strike in the nation so far this year.

The agreement includes a 5-percent pay raise retroactive to July. Combined with a 5.8-percent increase granted by the board at the beginning of the school year, the settlement will raise employees' overall pay for the year by 10.8 percent.

October 31, 1984
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